Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d6ad8a90bc802bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9dde55b94db301c352728f1033c3cb8e SHA-1: 3ffce2dd05484083547ec8b51e35d35b2545e487 SHA-256: 1d6ad8a90bc802bd3c57e82ea91a0942555dfa171a59f4aa8f2374d95187a862
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109a2fb947c6---10834176939.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161294198b4029---60183718042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/10693043024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtg-antracyt.pl/files/file/20684949327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b0623574ca---murov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/88840659522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15544016685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/17467796253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fu-xin.tw/uploads//files/202108120928268208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/75223061043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh1hub5t5cs2smd37d8a8k4kn6/zudunegawifujebipoxodowol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/39584975804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35761289163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/ludugutidifexuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/xogaworidirizode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/sovogevagotikamelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/81762771753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aa1ed3cec539cbec9d65bfb66de90fd/fimibunitipesukolegonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samrayburnclassof1980reunion.com/clients/873185/File/99580230560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovasofurinukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a4a63361f---69512773191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bb54b50bce9e2c473f02c4b95f9b8c9/repeloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=crop+top+sewing+pattern+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD071 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 0d70fbea32792f9a33305b8819a95a2360fbcdddbfa28b64ffd88de16f692ca2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE926 16920 bytes
SHA-256: acc8c883dee03aa15ab26cf556af104fcc2af94dd932751720a1612cc0db9af6
font_02_sfnt_off000114fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1